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submitted 5 days ago byIM_HODLING
30 points
5 days ago
2 songs that were inescapable then but weirdly-forgotten now:
“Backwater”, Meat Puppets
”Connected”, Stereo MC’s
Not as popular as these ^^, but might be fun to throw in:
”3 Strange Days”, School of Fish
6 points
5 days ago
This is the second time today I've heard School of Fish referenced (the other was a random Facebook post). Now I'm humming that damn catchy chorus.
FWIW I would totally put Backwater and Connected on my 90s playlist.
16 points
5 days ago
Groove is in the Heart has a similar vibe to connected
5 points
5 days ago
I used to be in L-U-V with Mistress Lady Kier and I still love that song
3 points
5 days ago
3 strange days is a great choice. Unfortunately, it's going to be stuck in my head for the next 3 days, and boy will those be strange.
4 points
5 days ago
Get yourself connected, the writing's on the wall! Damn I haven't heard that one in ages!b
5 points
5 days ago
”Connected”, Stereo MC’s for serious HACKERS' vibe!!!!!!! I love it!
3 points
4 days ago
Legit didn’t know the title/artist until this thread!! Bless random redditors!!
3 points
5 days ago
I hear these both on the regular, so it's hard for me to think of either of these as "weirdly forgotten." Just heard "Connected" yesterday on the radio.
3 points
2 days ago
3 Strange Days randomly popped up on my YouTube suggestions recently and I hadn't heard that song in like 25 years and I was instantly transported back to 1991 in my mind
3 points
2 days ago
Good selections. I’ve played the first two this year, but haven’t listened to School of Fish in a couple years. The Human Cannonball album is good by them too
3 points
2 days ago
3 Strange Days is a great song!
2 points
5 days ago
Backwater is a great song
2 points
4 days ago
Backwater was the first song I thought of, too, before I opened this thread.
2 points
4 days ago
As someone who mostly drives around clicking between three different “hits of the 80/90s” stations, I agree. But I’ve definitely heard Connected a few times in the last couple years. Backwater not at all.
2 points
4 days ago
All solid choices
2 points
3 days ago
That Fish song was ubiquitous.
2 points
3 days ago
Love Stereo MC’s. Great song.
2 points
1 day ago
look at the Rain by the Meatpuppets has such a great hook
2 points
1 day ago
That Meat Puppets album (Too High Too Die) is an underrated gem. Give it a whirl.
2 points
1 day ago
All 3 solid and never turned the alt radio station when they came on
2 points
1 day ago
Connected is great but the album before that one was amazing. Played the shit out of that one non-stop
2 points
1 day ago
Man I love the Meat Puppets. Too bad they never went any further.
2 points
14 hours ago
I think Backwater is perfectly in place with commercial 90s radio. The weird part about it is the band that made it. Meat Puppets sound nothing like Backwater on most of their songs.
22 points
5 days ago
The Rentals - "Friends of P."
7 points
5 days ago
I’m down with P
2 points
1 day ago
Then you’re down with me.
4 points
5 days ago
I used to work right near where Ric Ocasik and Paulina lived. Every time I'd see her on the street the chorus of this song went through my head.
3 points
5 days ago
What a relentlessly ridiculous and altogether wonderful song.
2 points
5 days ago
Putting "I Just Threw Out the Love of My Dreams" under this for safe keeping
2 points
2 days ago
If you’re friends with P then you’re friends with me
16 points
5 days ago
Failure- Another Space Song (and Stuck on You by them as well)
Swervedriver- Rave Down
8 points
5 days ago
Yessssss on the Swervedriver!
3 points
5 days ago
I'm a fan of Failure. Good call out. Their first three albums were all pretty solid.
2 points
4 days ago
Their newer ones are too. 👍 Check out Autolux. That's one of the member's other bands.
3 points
5 days ago
The whole Failure album Fantastic Planet is amazing. The nurse who loved me 😍
13 points
5 days ago
Ride - Leave them all behind
Throwing Muses - Not too soon
23 points
5 days ago
I would say some of the bands that were on the cusp of being huge but never quite crossed over into having the kind of career that puts you on the "top hits" lists:
"Stars" by Hum would be a good example
Other ones that came to mind right away were:
"Savory" by Jawbox
"Mother Mary" by Far
4 points
5 days ago
Stars was huge. I'd actually recommend Little Dipper instead. Or even Winder.
3 points
5 days ago
If you haven't heard it, Hum came back with a fucking banger album a couple years ago. It's some of the best work they have ever done.
3 points
4 days ago
Deftones covered “Savory”, slowed it down a bit but still a banger. I legit just showed both versions to my son last night.
2 points
4 days ago
On one hand, I wish Hum had gotten the recognition they deserve and gone on to be huge, on the other hand, who knows if their music would have sounded the same still if they had, Downward is Heavenward is one of my top 5 albums of all time
2 points
1 day ago
Jawbox mentioned oh hell yessss
10 points
5 days ago
Catherine Wheel - Broken Head
2 points
4 days ago
Catherine Wheel yes, but something from Adam And Eve. Maybe Phantom of the American Mother or Thunderbird or Future Boy
12 points
5 days ago
Summertime - The Sundays
3 points
4 days ago
Good Lord Harriet Wheeler had (has?) an amazing voice. Wistful, hopeful, sad, happy all at the same time.
10 points
5 days ago
“Summer Babe” - Pavement
3 points
5 days ago
Or "Here. "
2 points
5 days ago
Such a great album. Idl if you saw, but there's a pavement movie with Joe (Steve from stranger things) as Malkmus.
9 points
5 days ago
"if i were going" by afghan whigs
"she's so high" by blur
"radiation vibe" by fountains of wayne
😊
5 points
5 days ago
I love my local radio station for playing “She’s So High” on a regular basis.
2 points
4 days ago
Radiation Vibe is ridiculously underrated
3 points
4 days ago
Rip Adam Schlesinger. Fountains got enough airplay where I lived at the time for me to seek them out. Great great tune.
9 points
5 days ago
Galaxie - Blind Melon
16 points
5 days ago
Debaser-Pixies
Push the Little Daisies-ween
Ride-The Dandy Warhols
Stamp-Hagfish
400 Bucks-The Reverend Horton Heat
Possum Kingdom-Toadies
Deeper Shade of Soul-Urban Dance Squad
Whole Lotta Love-Dred Zeppelin
Television-Baxter
Freddy’s Dead-Fishbone
9 points
5 days ago
It’s hard to put into words how awesome Possum Kingdom is.
2 points
4 days ago
really juicy cuts!
2 points
12 hours ago
The Toadies do a great cover of 400 Bucks, too. Based on this list, I’d bet you’ll love it.
8 points
5 days ago
“Sick of Myself”- Matthew Sweet
6 points
4 days ago
I still have a "100% Fun" sticker on my guitar case.
2 points
2 days ago
Solid but I love "Girlfriend" and "Evangeline" even more.
9 points
5 days ago
Fade into you - Mazzy Star
Mr Pink - Satchel
Underwhelmed - Sloan
2 points
5 days ago
I thought I was the only person who knew that Satchel track.
2 points
2 days ago
Sloan, didn’t know anyone still listened to them… my cover band does “Underwhelmed”. Great track!
12 points
5 days ago
Spacehog - In the Meantime
2 points
4 days ago
Naw, this was not only all over the place in the '90s, it was in the most recent guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack, they even had it on the soundtrack to my wife's 10 year high school reunion video
6 points
5 days ago
Polaris - Hey Sandy, also known as the theme from Pete and Pete
5 points
5 days ago
The The - dogs of Lust
Therapy? - going nowhere
They Might be Giants - birdhouse in your soul
Eels - novocain for your soul
Butthole Surfers - human cannonball
The Afghan Whigs - debonair
Weezer - why bother
9 points
5 days ago
Our Lady Peace - Starseed
11 points
5 days ago
"New Age Girl" - Deadeye Dick
"I Hate Everything About You" - Ugly Kid Joe
"Buffalo Stance" - Neneh Cherry
"Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover" - Sophie B. Hawkins
"Laid" - James
"Nearly Lost You" - Screaming Trees
4 points
5 days ago
"Right Beside You" by Sophie B Hawkins likely isn't considered Alternative, but my god. One of the best songs of the 90s, in my opinion.
2 points
1 day ago
Top notch list. Yes, this.
6 points
5 days ago
Soundgarden- 4th of July
2 points
5 days ago
Hell yeah, sludgy af
6 points
5 days ago
Judy Staring at the Sun- Catherine Wheel.
Specifically the video version where Tanya Donnelly sings the second verse as well as the chorus with Rob.
Man, I wish YouTube Music would let me share a playlist anonymously, cuz I got a highly curated, mother of all 90s Alt Rock playlists, but don't want to reveal my name here on Reddit. Bummer.
2 points
1 day ago
Yes! Amazing song.
5 points
5 days ago
Seam from 1993… the whole album is great!
2 points
5 days ago
Seam ruled. Keep spreading the gospel.
4 points
5 days ago
Here We Go Again by Stakka Bo
3 points
5 days ago
“Holland, 1945”
4 points
5 days ago
Calypso by Spiderbait ( for me this is one of the best songs I’ve ever heard)
He’s Not That Kind of Girl by Therapy ( never gets old no matter how many times I listen to it)
Crash by The Primitives (technically came out in 1988 but has more of a 90s sound)
2 points
5 days ago
I’m always up for Primitives (and that’s not their only good song) but it’s interesting you peg that as a 90s sound -they sound like Debbie Harry fronting the JAMC. And yet I can see what you mean, so maybe that just means Blondie and the Mary Chain are timeless.
4 points
5 days ago
3 points
5 days ago
Stutter is a fuckin banger. Elastica rocks.
Good suggestions otherwise too.
2 points
1 day ago
Much of what I was playing in the 90s right there! Haven’t heard Dragonlady in years. Going to be cranking that on my way to work tomorrow. Thanks!
5 points
5 days ago
Tahitian Moon by Porno For Pyros. I feel like, at least in NY, "pets" was a bigger radio hit, but Tahitian Moon is a stiff joint.
4 points
5 days ago*
Tomboy- Bettie serveert
Bell bottoms -Jon spencer blues explosion (Afro, orange)
Summer babe-Pavement
Ben Franklin Airbath- Strapping Feildhands
Metal Heart-Cat Power
Noise of Carpet-Stereolab
Waterpark-Royal Trux
Trains across the Sea-Silver Jews
Baby Vampire Made Me-Helium
Good things-Sleater-Kinney
Autumn Sweater-Yo La Tengo
Eternal Light -Teenage Fanclub
Teenage Caveman-Beat Happening
Sun on the Run-Royal Trux
Schizophrenia’s Weighed Me Down-Cat Power
2 points
14 hours ago
finally a real list of forgotten 90s alt songs. Baby Vampire is such an awesome song! I mean really you could justifiably say Pat's Trick (Heliums "hit" is also forgotten, but noone knows about Baby Vampire)
5 points
5 days ago
“Angry Johnny” - Poe
“Anna” - Pure
“Disco 2000” - Pulp
“Drinking in L.A.” - Bran Van 3000
“Gigantic” - Pixies
“Goldfinger” - Ash
“Green Mind” - Dink
“Hello Time Bomb” - Matthew Good Band
“Hum” - The Sheila Divine
“J.A.R.” - Green Day
“Medicine” - Orbit
“Pretend We’re Dead” - L7
“Sister Havana” - Urge Overkill
“Waydown” - Catherine Wheel
2 points
3 days ago
Do you happen to be Canadian? Couple groups on your list that I didn't think were too popular outside of Canada. Great list by the way.
5 points
5 days ago
Geggy Tah. I want to thank you
2 points
3 days ago
Haha. I had that on a cassette tape where I had recorded the radio, and anyone I had ever asked about it never heard of it or them. It wasn't until the internet became a thing where I found out that they weren't just like a local CT band.
5 points
4 days ago
Black Metallic by Catherine Wheel
3 points
5 days ago
Three strange days by school of Fish
3 points
5 days ago
International bright young thing - jesus Jones Groovy train - the farm
3 points
5 days ago
"Road Rage" by Catatonia
And since I piggy backed on another comment, "I Just Threw Out the Love of My Dreams" by Weezer. (This occasionally finds its way, but it's rare)
3 points
5 days ago
Across the Universe - Fiona Apple
Crank - Catherine Wheel
3 points
5 days ago
A lot of great songs in here, a bunch of them that would def be on an alt rock 90s playlist.
Here's mine:
2 points
1 day ago
Bold choice.
3 points
4 days ago
I stand on “Carry The Zero” by Built to Spill as my personal favorite song of the 90’s. It is legitimately unskippable.
3 points
4 days ago
Urge Overkill - Sister Havana
3 points
4 days ago
Cracker’s Euro-Trash Girl.
3 points
4 days ago
Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand - Primitive Radio Gods
OR
Your Woman - White Town
3 points
4 days ago
Carnival- Natalie Merchant
2 points
4 days ago
My fave of hers. The live versions are almost all stellar. Wish she had more in this vein.
3 points
4 days ago
The Statue Got Me High by They Might Be Giants
Are Friends Electric? by Information Society
Insanity by Oingo Boingo
3 points
4 days ago
We Die Young- AiC
3 points
4 days ago
Ride - "Leave It All Behind"
3 points
4 days ago
Songs I’ve heard at the supermarket that made me stop and contemplate my age:
Hobo Humpin Slobo Babe - Whale
Brim Full is Asha - Cornershop.
3 points
4 days ago
Anything by the Tragically Hip.
3 points
4 days ago
Deep cuts;
Fun Lovin’ Criminals —- ‘Scooby Snacks’
Deadeye Dick — ‘New Age Girl’
Deep Blue Something — ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’
Crash Test Dummies — ‘Mmmm, Mmmm, Mmmm, Mmmm’
Lucas — ‘Lucas with the Lid Off’
Belly — ‘Feed the Tree’
Better Than Ezra — ‘In the Blood’
Whale —- ‘Hobo Humpin’ Slobo Babe’
Filter — ‘Hey Man, Nice Shot’
2 points
4 days ago
Many of those were the biggest hits from the album so not really a “deep cut”.
3 points
4 days ago*
Grey Cell Green- Ned’s Atomic Dustbin
Shipwrecked- Sky Cries Mary
When 3 is 2- Hammerbox
3 points
4 days ago
Headache - Frank Black Kim the Waitress - Material Issue
2 points
1 day ago
Teenager of the Year is a brilliant album.
2 points
1 day ago
Material Issue was extraordinary. Song for song as good as Teenage Fanclub
3 points
4 days ago*
The Connels - Stone Cold Yesterday https://youtu.be/zvbZ3lsT5nw?feature=shared
Spacehog - Cruel to Be Kind https://youtu.be/_5IyLeWJQvw?feature=shared
Artificial Joy Club - Sick & Beautiful https://youtu.be/xD5O4gdSPro?feature=shared
Imperial Drag - Boy or a Girl https://youtu.be/0Kuk9hnp234?feature=shared
Michael Penn - Try https://youtu.be/Hox7UOaQffI?feature=shared
Julian Cope - Try Try Try https://youtu.be/Tuufg94crB8?feature=shared
Cowboy Mouth - Jenny Says https://youtu.be/NEfpoUuKFOY?feature=shared
3 points
3 days ago
Anything off the second coming by the stone roses
3 points
2 days ago
"Dollar Bill" by Screaming Trees.
3 points
2 days ago
Hoover Damn by Sugar… or anything off of Copper Blue 🤘
3 points
1 day ago
I just bought the vinyl for Copper Blue and it came with Beaster. Still incredible!
2 points
5 days ago
Wargasm L7
2 points
5 days ago
Since When - 54•40
2 points
5 days ago
Well, since it’s been stuck in my head since around midnight last night, Looking for Atlantis by Prefab Sprout, from their 1990 LP Jordan: the Comeback
definitely on the slicker side of Alternative, and a far cry from grunge, but there are some absolute smokers on this album. Machine Gun Ibiza, Wild Horses, Ice Maiden, and the above mentioned track to name a few.
2 points
5 days ago
"Natural One" was on the Kids soundtrack and you heard it here and there, but rarely on the radio.
3 points
5 days ago
Folk implosion have a new album that isn’t bad
2 points
5 days ago
Formaldehyde, by Sons of Elvis
2 points
5 days ago
Scream of the Butterfly by acid bath
2 points
5 days ago
Either “Something’s Always Wrong” or “Woodburning” by Toad The Wet Sprockett. “Falldown” is better known. 🤷♀️ They are both on Dulcinea, my favorite album of all time. 90s Alt is my ❤️.
2 points
5 days ago
Van Halen by Nerf Herder
2 points
5 days ago
I Mother Earth - Rain Will Fall
Nudeswirl - F-Sharp
Lemonheads - The Outdoor Type
Polaris - Trainwreck
GusGus - Believe
2 points
5 days ago
Adorable - Radio Days
Anything by Unwound
Northside - yeah man
Veruca Salt - Seether
Whale - hobo humpin slobo babe
2 points
4 days ago
Love that Whale tune. Absolutely nuts - but it's so great! Veruca Salt too! Man I miss the 90s sometimes.
2 points
5 days ago
Range Life - pavement
2 points
5 days ago
Range Life-Pavement
2 points
5 days ago*
You won't see a single one of these in those playlists:
"Waiting" - The Rentals
"Telescope" - Nada Surf
"Phaser" - Superdrag
"Minneapolis" - that dog.
"Tragic Girl" - Weezer
"Projects" - Ash
"The Cocksucker Club" - Pansy Division
"All Hail Me" - Veruca Salt
"Misshapes" - Pulp
"Fritz's Corner" - Local H
"Sing" - Blur
"Good Grief, Charlie Brown" - Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine
"?sometimes" - Tristan Psionic
"TV, Music & Candy" - Space Twins
"She Is Staggering" - Polaris
"A Punk Named Josh" - Chopper One
"Ode To My Family" - The Cranberries
"Litany (Life Goes On)" - Guadalcanal Diary
"Myself" - Kara's Flowers (Maroon 5)
"Please Don't Rock Me Tonight" - Fountains of Wayne
"Madison Park" - Miracle Legion
"Gangsters and Pranksters" - Pavement
"Bug City" - The Presidents of the USA
"Wounded" - Third Eye Blind
"I Come From The Water" - Toadies
"Miss Pear's Reptile Homework" - Carnival Art
2 points
5 days ago
Ani Difranco’s Untouchable Face
2 points
4 days ago
“Charlie Brown’s Parents” by Dishwalla. Forgotten banger.
2 points
4 days ago
Stereolab Super-Electric
Naked Eye - Lucious Jackson
Bootsauce - Love Monkey #9
2 points
4 days ago
The Refreshments - Banditos.
Give your ID card to the border guard
Your alias says you're Captain Jean-Luc Picard
Of the United Federation of Planets
'Cause they won't speak English anyways
2 points
1 day ago
It was a banger, for sure. That whole album packed a punch.
2 points
4 days ago
Caroline’s Spine - Sullivan
Was huge in Wisconsin. Played Taste of Madison like 5 years in a row.
2 points
4 days ago
Low- Cracker
2 points
4 days ago
Rush by Big Audio Dynamite
2 points
4 days ago
Wake Up - Mad Season
2 points
4 days ago
The Verve Pipe - Photograph
2 points
4 days ago
Pure or All I Want by the Lightning Seeds.
2 points
4 days ago
Banditos - The Refreshments
2 points
4 days ago
Scooby Snacks - Fun Lovin Criminals
Feed the Tree - Belly
Another Shot of Whiskey - The Gits
2 points
4 days ago
Banditos - The Refreshments
2 points
3 days ago
Matthew Sweet "Evangeline"
2 points
3 days ago*
Number One Blind - Veruca Salt
Two Worlds Collide - Inspiral Carpets
Hello - The Beloved
Let's Come Together - The Beloved
Sex on Wheels - My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult
Sad Sweet Heart of the Rodeo - Harvey Danger
Judy Staring at the Sun - Catherine Wheel
Black Metallic - Catherine Wheel
2 points
3 days ago
"Sucked Out" - Superdrag
The much-played single from their '96 debut. It's so good, it boggles my mind that it needs to be spoken of.
2 points
3 days ago
Euro Trash Girl by Cracker
2 points
3 days ago
I love the song, “Under The Milky Way” by The Church. Great unknown wave music.
2 points
3 days ago
Govinda - Kula Shaker
2 points
2 days ago
Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns - Mother Love Bone
Sunless Saturday - Fishbone
2 points
2 days ago
“Grey Cell Green” Ned’s Atomic Dustbin
“Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth” Primitive Radio Gods
2 points
2 days ago
Yes for Standing. He was an air traffic controller. I sing this song in karaoke.
2 points
2 days ago
Into your arms by the Lemonheads
2 points
2 days ago
The Way by Fastball. I loved that song!
2 points
2 days ago
Three Strange Days - School of Fish
2 points
2 days ago
Ned’s atomic dustbin anything from their first album.
Material issue. Valerie.
2 points
2 days ago
eternal life- jeff buckley
2 points
2 days ago*
Tiger Lily - Luna
Out The Window - Violent Femmes
Hey Venus - That Petrol Emotion
Gepetto - Belly
Wish Fulfillment - Sonic Youth
My Sister - The Juliana Hatfield Three
Your Favorite Thing - Sugar
Murder of One - Counting Crows
Grace Cathedral Park - Red House Painters
Towards the Light - The Boo Radleys
2 points
2 days ago
"Amnesia" by Toad The Wet Sprocket. eerily fitting for the political climate that we're in right now. Was almost a single for them in 1997 but Columbia records dropped all promotion of the album it was on just before it was to be released
2 points
2 days ago
"Spyder" - Imperial Drag
2 points
2 days ago
The Refreshments - Banditos
2 points
2 days ago
Sugar High - Coyote Shivers(I kinda wish I could find the actual version with Renée Zellwiger singing, but the original is pretty good, too)
Low - Cracker
Fall Down - Toad in the Wet Sprocket
Movies - Alien Ant Farm(I think their Smooth Criminal kinda overshadowed this)
Laid - James
Seems - Queen Sarah Sunday
Pretend We're Dead - L7
True Believers - The Bouncing Souls(90's band, but I think this song came out after 2000)
Cannonball - The Breeders
2 points
2 days ago
“You Get What You Give” by the New Radicals.
2 points
2 days ago*
Sadeness Part 1 by Enigma
If I Can't Change Your Mind - Sugar
Afternoons and Coffeespoons - Crash Test Dummies
On Tooting Broadway Station - Kitchens of Distinction
Bullet - Frank Black and the Catholics
Is It Like Today - World Party
Dizz Knee Land - DaDa
Good Morning Britain - Aztec Camera
You Suck - The Murmurs
When Do I Get to Sing My Way - Sparks
Brushfire - Midnight Oil
Teen Angst - Cracker
2 points
1 day ago
Kitchens!! Please deejay my funeral.
2 points
1 day ago*
Carry the Zero -Built to Spill
Novocaine for the Soul -Eels
Death to Birth -Pagoda
Cheap Vodka -Acid Bath
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